Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second floor, but comparatively few seem to be aware that in the room on the left of the stairs is one of the finest collection of meteorites in the world. This collection which, on the basis of the present value of the substances contained in it, is worth, approximately, a million and half dollars, is the result of nearly fifty years of labor by Professor Cook. The mucleus of the collection came from Professor J. Lawrence Smith of Louisville, Ky., who sold it to Professor Cook at a reduced rate...
...living up to its promise, when, as it seems, no match games have been arranged for the next ten days. The fact is that everything has been done and is now being done to get outside elevens to come to Cambridge; but, unfortunately, nearly all the teams worth playing have scheduled games in their own series to play from now on. Telegrams have been sent all over the country but with very little satisfaction. We as sure grumblers that the eleven will play some sort of a team on each of regular days, and, in point of fact, such...
...Concerning the Romantic School, on the literary side, the reader must be referred to the bibliographies of German literature. The well-known early essays of Carlyle form here an introduction which has not yet wholly lost its value for English readers; and his translations are of permanent worth. Heine's sketches of the history of German Thought and Literature are as suggestive as they are charming and untrustworthy. Schelling's voluminous writings are still for the most part accessible only in the original. The best recent technical and critical exposition of a portion of his doctrine is that by Professor...
...game this afternoon is, for all intents and purposes, a championship game, and will therefore be watched with unusual interest. The Wesleyan games have always been hard fought and well worth seeing. We have heard a few men complain that the football management is overstepping its bounds in charging extra for reserved seats, but if the foregoing facts are kept in mind, every one will admit that this is only just. Moreover there has been no football subacription this year, and the eleven is incurring usual expenses, so that funds must be raised somehow. We see no better...
...furnish a good chance to show a little class feeling of which there is none too much at Harvard. The teams themselves have been working hard for two or three weeks and the elevens are all in very fair condition so that each of the games will be well worth seeing...